Legal Documents of Gatlinburg

If the owner or other person described in § 13-110 shall fail to remedy such conditions within the time prescribed therein, the city manager shall certify such failure to the public works director who shall thereupon remedy the condition or conditions and abate the nuisance so certified by the city manager or cause the same to be done by city personnel. Upon completion of such work, the public works director shall determine the reasonable cost thereof plus fifteen percent (15%) for inspection and other incidental costs in connection therewith and bill the owner therefor. Upon failure of the owner to remit to the director of finance the amount of charge within sixty (60) days from the date of such notice a ten percent (10%) penalty shall be added and the total amount of the bill and the penalty shall be certified to the director of finance by the city manager and shall constitute a lien upon the property for which the expenditure is made, which lien shall be enforced by a suit in the Chancery Court as are other tax liens of the city. The provisions of this section are not exclusive but are cumulative and in addition to the penalties and requirements of § 13-113 shall be in addition to the burden placed upon the owner of the property set out in the provisions of this section. (1976 Code, § 8-418, as replaced by Ord. #2299, Sept. 2003)